It’s the people who claim along the lines that “all you have to do is look up” that set off red flags. I get the sense that people who see things all the time and claim that we can to just have a really low threshold for determining genuine anomolous phenomemon.

It’s all very interesting,as well as confusing!

This research on alien abduction that you and Nick are doing reminds me too much of the self-help movement. It seems Bud Hopkins and John Mack helped promote people to have abduction as a charismatic identity movement. Some might even argue that the obesity epidemic is a similar expression of repressed anger at the extreme inequity of wealth in the U.S. At least people can flaunt something that can not be “proved” despite everyone’s attempt to try.

Slavoj Zizek understands this dynamic but he’s one of those trendy pomo radical Leftist Hegelian-Lacanian psychopolitical cultural analysts. He eschews the paranormal yet he embraces McDonald’s as some sort of existential post-apocalyptic fantasy.

Anyway I did a dialectial reversal on Hynek with the idea that violation of logic is proof because, as per Harry M. Collin’s “Lead to Gold” article — proof is dependent on technological context while logic is more powerful. For example Kurt Godel “proved” time-travel through logic alone — stating that people who time-travel would not want to change their future. This is in Rudy Rucker’s book “Infinity and the Mind.” Godel states: “That’s the power of logic.”

Logic and proof both operate by desire, defined by music ratios! But there can be no proof for an open system of asymmetric resonance which is inherently not contained by logic. UFOs violate logic and that’s why there real — because there can never be no proof.

http://tricksterbook.com understands this — parapsychologist George P. Hansen. Still I admire you and Nick doing a self-help mop-up job for Jacobs, Mack and Hopkins.

While some individuals have credential issues due to questionable mental status, intentions, or strange luck, there are some who have have had multiple sightings due to taking the time to actively look for UFOs in areas where they have repeatedly been reported by others. Some areas appear to have much more UFO traffic than others (which always makes me question whether these are simply man-made devices rather than from another source).

Good post!

Perhaps these people are preselected by some cosmic order of which we know little. I don’t know if anyone has looked into this. Of course, the fundamentalist skpetics would say that these are “fantasy-prone personalities,” which puts them in a convenient box to be ignored, but tells us nothing.

Maybe if they happen twice or more, they’re not “random.” Let’s take things a step further. William Burroughs said something I always liked: “There is no such thing as coincidence.” What I take that to mean is the ultimate arbiter of what is “real” is the mind/ consciousness.

This is the same idea as “the observer affects the observed, and vice-versa.” At some point, we have to admit that the world is in our heads and not on artificial maps of reality that we have created.

So, in other words, I agree with you!

~Y

I too have a big problem with witnesses who insist they have the truth, and they know what they know because the aliens told them so. No doubt something told them so, but what, and why, etc. — is the question.

As to my own experiences; some days I just say “oh hell, I don’t know! ” And I don’t. Except that, it’s something. Sorry, started to ramble there.